Character and Location Map of Deb’s Books

Places and characters weave together to create a realistic community of the fictional town Nine Mile Falls in Deb’s books. Keep reading to see the characters who make multiple appearances, or click on a link to a book to see which overlapping characters are in each book.

Cummings Road: Featured as a prominent setting in HONEY, Cricket and her family live just off this road in THE STORY OF US, and Cricket and Janssen drive this road frequently.Honey Baby Sweetheart, The Story of Us

Lake Union: Sebastian lives on the houseboats here in JADE; Clara parks with Christian here in STAY; Dani and her husband Ian live on the houseboats in HE'S GONE. In ESSENTIAL MAPS FOR THE LOST, Mads discovers the body of Billy Youngwolf Floyd’s mother, Anna, here. Billy lives here with his grandmother on the houseboat docks, too, in ESSENTIAL MAPS FOR THE LOST.Essential Maps for the Lost, He's Gone, Stay, The Nature of Jade

The bench outside Hotel Delgado: Jordan goes there often to contemplate in THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING and Kale Kramer giver her his hat there; Henry and Tessa eat burgers there in THE LAST FOREVER. Scarlet sits there often with Hayden and Zeus in SIX RULES. Isabelle ponders her future while sitting on the bench in WHAT’S BECOME OF HER. The Last Forever, The Queen of Everything, The Six Rules of Maybe, What's Become of Her

The Bishop Rock Marina: Finn’s sailboat is docked here in STAY; Ash works on a fishing boat at the marina in THE STORY OF US.Stay, The Story of Us

The Church on Cummings Road: In HONEY, Joe Davis works here, and struggles with the mysterious person who changes the word ‘God’ to the word ‘Dog.’ In THE STORY OF US, Cricket and Janssen fall in love on the grass in front of the church.Honey Baby Sweetheart, The Story of Us

The Cove burger shack on Bishop Rock: Finn’s sister works here in STAY; Cricket, Ben, Daisy and Jupiter all eat lunch here in THE STORY OF US.Stay, The Story of Us

The McKinnon Family Plot: The eerie stone round table surrounded by stone chairs out in the forest on Parrish, Jordan and Jackson hike to it in THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING, and Isabelle and Henry have sex there for the first time in WHAT’S BECOME OF HERThe Queen of Everything, What's Become of Her

The Pigeon Point Lighthouse on Bishop Rock: Clara works here in STAY, Cricket and Ben go here in THE STORY OF US.Stay, The Story of Us

The Red Pearl: The boat, owned by Jan and Dave, is where Jordan loses her virginity in THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING. It’s the boat Henry and Isabelle take out In WHAT’S BECOME OF HER, the one that provides Professor Weary with an essential clue to Isabelle’s identity. The Queen of Everything, What's Become of Her

The taffy shop in Bishop Rock: Clara and her dad make fun of the place in STAY; Cricket and her friend Natalie duck inside here to hide in THE STORY OF US.Stay, The Story of Us

Total Vid: Clara’s father in STAY, Bobby Oates, watches “Riding Giants,” the movie that Titus from Total Vid recommends to everyone in the neighborhood in JADE.Stay, The Nature of Jade

Bonnie Randall, of Randall & Stein Booksellers: Vince MacKenzie’s girlfriend in QUEEN, she has a bookstore next door to Quill, where Scarlet’s mother works in SIX RULES. She also almost rents the space above Randall & Stein to Isabelle when she leaves Henry, in WHAT’S BECOME OF HER.The Queen of Everything, The Six Rules of Maybe, What's Become of Her

Butch: He is behind the bar serving food in both STAY and THE STORY OF US.Stay, The Story of Us

Jenny Sedgewick: Tessa’s grandmother and painting instructor in The Last Forever, she arranges the sale of Isabelle’s house to her son, and gives art classes to Henry North in What’s Become of Her.The Last Forever, What's Become of Her

Louella Bell (Big Mama): Jordan’s savior and sage in Queen of Everything, she and her husband used to own the house Henry rents in What’s Become of Her. Isabelle used to babysit her children when Louella lived there.The Queen of Everything, What's Become of Her

Maddie and Lou: Sebastian's aunts in THE NATURE OF JADE, they are also Dani and Ian's houseboat neighbors in HE'S GONE.He's Gone, The Nature of Jade

Sebastian, Tess and their family, and Tiffany and her parents: characters from JADE also appear in TRUE COLORS. Sebastian, a young boy in TRUE COLORS, experiences his first crush on the beauty queen Tiffany. As well, the people who live on the dock with Sebastian and Tess appear in Deb’s other adult novels: Winston Grove and Trudy, from RARE, and Gloria Montana, from JIMMY CALYPSO CAME HOME.The Nature of Jade, True Colors